When you first see the name DeMoivre, what’s the first thing that comes to mind? While for many their first thought could be an Italian pizza, many may be surprised to find out it’s actually a French mathematician. Abraham de Moivre was a French Huguenot, a pioneer in the development of analytic trigonometry and in the theory of probability. Abraham became interested in mathematics at a very young age, he later perused mathematics intentionally in school all by himself. Eventually, he left France at the age of 18 and decided to move to London. Believing that maybe there he could soon pursue and advance his lifelong dreams, and oh boy he did! Shortly after arriving in London, He obtained a copy of Isaac Newton's book "Principia". Soon he started
What many people don’t know is that Napoleon was not only a great military leader, but also a mathematician. He is an academician at the Institut de France, an out-and-out scientist and used to spend four hours a day on math. The famous "Napoleon Triangle" is a legend. At the same time, he is a man of subtle and refined affection. The touching love story between him and his wife Josephine became a favorite tale on everybody’s lips.
Guy de Maupassant is acknowledged through the world as one of the masters of the short story; Guy de Maupassant was also the author of a collection of poetry, a volume of plays, three travel journals, six novels, and many chronicles. He produced some three hundred short stories in the single decade from 1880 to 1890; a period during which he produced most of his other works. Five of his six novels were published during the second half of the decade. “His short fiction has been compared to that of Ivan Turgenev, Anton Chekhov, Edgar Allan Poe, and Henry James.” (Encyclopedia Britanica 1012)
He also devoted a lot of time to alchemy. He became the master of The Royal Mint in 1699, a position that he held until the end of his life. In 1705 he became the first ever scientist to be knighted. In 1717 As a result of a report that he wrote to the treasury, It was forbidden to exchange gold guineas for more than 21 shillings, this eventually led to the britain changing their silver standard to a gold standard as it caused a silver shortage. Newton eventually moved in with his niece and her husband to spend the later years of his life. He died in his sleep in march 20, 1726 after his death his hair was examined and there were found to contain mercury possibly resulting from his persuasion of alchemy. Mercury poisoning could have been the cause of his odd behavior in the later years of his life as well as his
I have looked into many topics and have decided to conduct my research on Frank William Abagnale Jr. He is a famous imposter known for his success in check fraud and many identities. On Biography.com it states that Frank Abagnale was born April 27, 1948 in Bronxville, New York and was the third of four children. His story is often known because of the movie “Catch Me If You Can”, which is based off his criminal career. Frank started off his credit card schemes as a teenager and was able to escape police custody twice by the age of 21. During this research assignment I want to find out more information on Abagnale as a con artist. I want to explore how he was able to successfully embezzle millions of dollars at such a young age. I
DeMorgan’s aim as a mathematician was to place the subject on a more rigorous foundation. As a teacher he was unrivaled, and no topic was too insignificant to receive his careful attention. In 1838 he introduced the term “ mathematical induction'; to differentiate between the hypothetical induction of empirical science and the rigorous method. Often used in mathematical proof, for advancing from n to n+I.
Newton was educated at the King’s School, Grantham from the age of twelve to seventeen where he learned only Latin and no mathematics. His mother re...
The day Galileo had slipped from our world Sir Isaac Newton had life breathed into him. Sir Isaac Newton was born on December 25, 1642, at Woolsthorpe. Before he was born his father died, so he was brought up with the scent and presence of his mother, Hannah. Despite this at the age of three his mother married someone else and abandoned him in the care of his grandmother, devastating him and rocking his foundation. He received the basic local education, or elementary, until he was twelve, then he proceeded to attend the King's School in Grantham. In 1661, at the age of nineteen, he entered Trinity College, Cambridge and worked to obtain his Bachelors degree. He then decided to go work for his masters degree, the plague hit Europe in 1666 the University closed. The next eighteen months he spent learning in solitude at his manor. When the College reopens he quickly obtains his Masters. He later becomes a professor for this college for 27 years. During these times he brought to light optics, his discovery of calculus and gravitation. Having learned all this he contributed to the Enlightenment with his discoveries as well as influencing thinkers of the future.
Newton was born in Woolsthorpe-by-Colsterworth, United Kingdom on January fourth, 1643. He was the only son of a prosperous local farmer, also named Isaac Newton, who died three months before he was born. A premature baby born tiny and weak, Newton was not expected to survive. When he was 3 years old, his mother, Hannah Ayscough Newton, remarried a minister, Barnabas Smith, and went to live with him, leaving Newton behind. The experience left an imprint on Newton, later manifesting itself as an acute sense of insecurity. He anxiously obsessed over his published work, defending its ideas with irrational behavior. Newt...
With the Scientific Revolution in full swing, Sir Isaac Newton became very interested in advanced science and philosophy. In fact, he...
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No other scholar has affected more fields of learning than Blaise Pascal. Born in 1623 in Clermont, France, he was born into a family of respected mathematicians. Being the childhood prodigy that he was, he came up with a theory at the age of three that was Euclid’s book on the sum of the interior of triangles. At the age of sixteen, he was brought by his father Etienne to discuss about math with the greatest minds at the time. He spent his life working with math but also came up with a plethora of new discoveries in the physical sciences, religion, computers, and in math. He died at the ripe age of thirty nine in 1662(). Blaise Pascal has contributed to the fields of mathematics, physical science and computers in countless ways.
Born in the Netherlands, Daniel Bernoulli was one of the most well-known Bernoulli mathematicians. He contributed plenty to mathematics and advanced it, ahead of its time. His father, Johann, made him study medicine at first, as there was little money in mathematics, but eventually, Johann gave in and tutored Daniel in mathematics. Johann treated his son’s desire to lea...
Sir Isaac Newton Jan 4 1643 - March 31 1727 On Christmas day by the georgian calender in the manor house of Woolsthorpe, England, Issaac Newton was born prematurely. His father had died 3 months before. Newton had a difficult childhood. His mother, Hannah Ayscough Newton remarried when he was just three, and he was sent to live with his grandparents. After his stepfather’s death, the second father who died, when Isaac was 11, Newtons mother brought him back home to Woolsthorpe in Lincolnshire where he was educated at Kings School, Grantham. Newton came from a family of farmers and he was expected to continue the farming tradition , well that’s what his mother thought anyway, until an uncle recognized how smart he was. Newton's mother removed him from grammar school in Grantham where he had shown little promise in academics. Newtons report cards describe him as 'idle' and 'inattentive'. So his uncle decided that he should be prepared for the university, and he entered his uncle's old College, Trinity College, Cambridge, in June 1661. Newton had to earn his keep waiting on wealthy students because he was poor. Newton's aim at Cambridge was a law degree. At Cambridge, Isaac Barrow who held the Lucasian chair of Mathematics took Isaac under his wing and encouraged him. Newton got his undergraduate degree without accomplishing much and would have gone on to get his masters but the Great Plague broke out in London and the students were sent home. This was a truely productive time for Newton.
Carl Friedrich Gauss was born April 30, 1777 in Brunswick, Germany to a stern father and a loving mother. At a young age, his mother sensed how intelligent her son was and insisted on sending him to school to develop even though his dad displayed much resistance to the idea. The first test of Gauss’ brilliance was at age ten in his arithmetic class when the teacher asked the students to find the sum of all whole numbers 1 to 100. In his mind, Gauss was able to connect that 1+100=101, 2+99=101, and so on, deducing that all 50 pairs of numbers would equal 101. By this logic all Gauss had to do was multiply 50 by 101 and get his answer of 5,050. Gauss was bound to the mathematics field when at the age of 14, Gauss met the Duke of Brunswick. The duke was so astounded by Gauss’ photographic memory that he financially supported him through his studies at Caroline College and other universities afterwards. A major feat that Gauss had while he was enrolled college helped him decide that he wanted to focus on studying mathematics as opposed to languages. Besides his life of math, Gauss also had six children, three with Johanna Osthoff and three with his first deceased wife’s best fri...
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